Friday 4 September 2009 − Wednesday 9 September 2009
Fortezza da Basso − Italy
ESP-Nephropathology Working Group WG Chair: Prof. Dr. Michael J. Mihatsch
Important Deadlines
Abstract submission: 15 April 2009,
Notification of acceptance: 20 May 2009
Early Registration deadline: by 10 June 2009
Regular Registration deadline: 10 July 2009
Late Registration deadline: 10 August 2009 www.ecp2009.org
Morning session 9.30 – 12.00h
Transplantation, Organization and chair: Prof. Dr. Volker Nickeleit (Chapel Hill, USA)
 Recurrent and de-novo focal and segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) in renal allografts
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Ingeborg M. Bajema, Leiden, The Netherlands
Transplant glomerulitis and glomerulopathy: clinical significance and differential diagnosis.
Volker Nickeleit and Michael J. Mihatsch, Chapel Hill/USA & Basel/Switzerland
 Coffee Break 10.30 – 11.00
 Challenging C4d staining results: C4d deposits late after transplantation, focal
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C4d staining, and C4d accumulations without pathology in ABO compatible and incompatible grafts: what does it mean?
Mark Haas, Baltimore, USA
Immune profiling in renal transplantation: biopsy correlations with urine and plasma PCR studies.
Surya Seshan, New York, USA
 Lunch 12.00 – 14.00
Afternoon session 14.00 – 17.30

Native kidney diseases: Glomerular diseases Organization and chair: Prof. Ian SD
Roberts (Oxford, UK)
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IgA nephropathy: a new international evidence-based consensus classification.
Ian Roberts, Oxford, United Kingdom
Membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis: is a morphological classification adequate?
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Franco Ferrario, Milan Italy
C1q nephropathy: diagnostic criteria and clinicopathological correlations.
Alenka Vizjak, Ljubljana, Slovenia
 Coffee break 16.00 -16.30
 Membranous nephropathy: predicting prognosis, morphology and beyond.
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Eric Steenbergen, Nijmegen, Netherlands
Thin membrane nephropathy or collagen IV nephropathy: how should we classify glomerular basement membrane disorders
Mark Haas, Baltimore, USA
September 7, 2009 (8.30-12.00)
Symposium
“The kidney in autoimmune diseases”
Organization and chair: Prof Dusan Ferluga (Ljubliana, Slovenia)
Program
 Immune complex- mediated small vessel vasculitis, Charles Jennette, USA
 Clinical pathologic classification and correlations in lupus nephritis, Jan A. Bruijn,
The Netherlands
 Renal disease in rheumatoid arthritis, Surya V. Seshan, USA
 Antiphospholipid syndrome – pathologist’s perspective, Dusan Ferluga, Slovenia
 Renal involvement in primary Sjogren’s syndrome, Eva Honsova, Czech
Republic
 Inherited regulatory protein disorders of complement activation and the kidney,
Laure-Hélene Noël, France
Business Meeting
Major topic: How to organize and run a biopsy registry
September 7, 2009 (17.30-19.00)

Program:
 Organization and practice of a kidney biopsy registry
 The Norwegian view: Bjarne M. Iversen, Norway
 The NN view: NN
September 8, 2009 (8.30- 12.00)
Slide Seminar
“Renal Pathology without electron and immunofluorescence microcopy: A dead end street“.
Transplant Pathology
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Bela Ivanyi, Hungary
 Helmut Hopfer, Switzerland
Eduardo Vazquez Martul, Spain
 Agmeszua Perkowska-Ptasinska, Poland
 Heinz Regele, Austria
Native Kidney Pathology
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Kerstin Amann, Germany
 Jan A. Bruijn, The Netherlands
 Johan Mölne,Sweden,
Guido Monga, Italy
 Maria M. Picken, USA
September 8, 2009 (14.30-17.00 h)
Short course
“New insights into the pathogenesis of renal diseases”
Organization and chair: Prof Dontscho Kerjaschki (Vienna, Austria)
Program
 Molecular mimicry in pauci-immune focal necrotizing glomerulonephritis, Renate
Kain, Austria

 Molecular pathology of the glomerular slit diaphragm and proteinuria, Tobias
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Huber, Germany
Towards the identification of a “renopoietic system”, Paola Romagnani, Italy
 Notch and glomerular pathology (to be confirmed), Katalin Susztak, USA